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...Our annual ranking of the best-reviewed selections from the past 12 months. Culled from our monthly Beer Buying Guide, these represent the most dynamic and exciting beers reviewed this year. They exhibit extraordinary craftsmanship, innovation and quality at prices that still represent affordable luxury.

During the last few years, Full Sail has been giving lagers some extra TLC. In fact, their Session and LTD lines exclusively feature different styles of lagers. I’ve tasted, enjoyed, and written about several.

Brewed by Oregon’s Full Sail Brewing Company, one of the U.S.’s first craft breweries, this multi-award-winning winter warmer has been ushering in the holiday season since 1988. The bottleneck label speaks of the brewery’s environs, depicting a postcard-like view of the Hood River Valley with snow-topped pines and the majestic Mt. Hood rising in the background…

At the 2013 World Beer Awards our Amber Ale and Session Premium Lager added two more gold medals to the brewery’s extensive list of awards and accolades. On top of that our Amber was named "World's Best" and our Session Premium Lager was named "The Americas' Best".

Every year, Full Sail’s brewers patiently wait for the days until the hop harvest is ready to go. When the call from the farm finally comes, the brewers set out in their truck straight for the hop fields. They bring back the freshest of hops from the field and into the waiting brew kettle. Just hours away from the farmer’s field, these fresh hops are fragrant with grassy, herbal, citrus and floral aromas.

26 is the beer that celebrates that anniversary. It's a lager, as befits the brewery that has become Oregon's biggest, best lager brewery, and it's a Northwest take on a European classic and features intense aromas of pine and spice with citrus notes and is supported by a medium body, dry malty palate, and is balanced with a long, clean, herbal hop finish...

Full Sail Brewing 26 Cascade Pilsner is the brewery’s newest creation and will be used as their year-long 26th Anniversary beer. Brewmaster Jamie Emerson and crew have been steadily putting out some really good lagers in the last few years, but I think this is hands down one of the best...

One of the most wonderful parts of being an Oregon brewer is that we have so many hop fields nearby. During harvest the hops brighten the air with their wonderful aroma. Our 26th anniversary beer is a tribute to all those hop growers, whose family farms have been passed on generation to generation, and like our barley farmers, grow one of the four foundations for all brews.

Full Sail Brewing is excited to host a book signing of The American Craft Beer Cookbook at their pub with author, John Holl. Join Full Sail Brewing on Wednesday, September 18th from 5-7pm to meet the author of this newly released book. Local bookseller Waucoma Books will be on site with books for sale for $19.95.

Each year I look over my shoulder and see that the rest of the country is gaining on us. Oregon is no longer such a rare and special beer place. Other cities have dozens of breweries, great alehouses, gastropubs, and so on. And a few are even near a field or two of hops. But exceedingly rare are the cities a mere 45 minutes from a major hop-growing region.

Oregon has given the beer world a new tradition: Fresh-hop beers made with vine-fresh, unprocessed hops. Thanks to our brewers and hop growers, nobody else in the world can boast the number and quality of fresh-hop beers, nor the series of fall festivals around the state that celebrate them. Hop harvest is shifting into high gear...

The ubiquitous hop- a beloved ingredient among brewers and beer drinkers and it’s true what they say, Oregon truly loves their hops. For people that enjoy beer but don’t get the opportunity to see the ingredients that go into making their favorite pale ale or porter, a hop can seem like an intangible thing. You may know what it is but you don’t see how it gets from the farm to the brewers, leaving a lot to the imagination...

Why fly to Munich for a genuine Oktoberfest Lager when this one could be inches from your lips? The newest addition to Full Sail’s Limited Lager Series (LTD), Oktoberfest is the seventh recipe in the LTD line-up.

There’s no replacing the nutritional boost of a protein smoothie with electrolytes after a run. But there’s also no substitute for the joy of a cold beer after a hard workout. Here are eight delicious American craft beers that can satisfy any palate; from the light-beer lover to hardcore hop head.

For the Summer 2013 release, assistant brewing supervisor Chris Haveman tried his hand at a Berliner Weiss, a half-millennium-old style of sour wheat beer (usually spelled with an “e” on the end of “Weisse”). Chris’s Summer Delight Berliner Weiss uses 50% wheat and 50% barley. Hersbrucker hops cut the sweetness without adding much bitterness. But the tartness is still there, giving sour-beer aficionados a refreshing, easy-drinking summer alternative to the more potent Belgian sours.

First up is the brand new Full Sail Brewing Company’s Pub Series English Pale Ale. The Pub Series is a collection of beers that highlight classic styles of beer.
This entry in the series is quite good. It’s not a west coast hoppy pale ale, this is more malt forward. There is a toasty caramel from the malts, and it finishes with a touch of Earthy hops.
This 5 percent ABV English Pale Ale is a good, solid beer if you like your ales on the malty side.

This is a very well done pilsner that fits the label in both being a "session" beer and being a "premium lager". At 5.1% ABV, this beer can easily be enjoyed over the entire day. As far as premium.....those who are or have brewed, either professionally or at home, can attest that brewing a sessionable lager leaves absolutely zero room for any flaws in the beer.

Full Sail Brewing has just announced the release of the next beer in their new rotating line of classic ales called the Pub Series. The third beer in the series, English Pale is traditional copper ale with flavors of toast, light caramel and a mild hop finish. This new series features ales that had only previously been available at Full Sail’s Tasting Room & Pub.

Here's what USA Today has to say about Session..."Full Sail Session Lager: This full-bodied, old-school brew is a far cry from bland mass-produced lagers. With a positively measly calorie count and plenty of flavor, this classic beer is perfect for any summer gathering or meal. Plus, it comes in adorable "stubby" bottles with sweet retro labels. What's not to love?"

Full Sail Brewing is proud to be one of the 38 craft brewers across the country that has joined the Ales for ALS campaign in support of the ALS Therapy Development Institute’s (ALS TDI) mission to discover and develop effective treatments for ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Over the Memorial Day holiday I picked up a couple of 12 packs of the Full Sail Session Black Premium Dark Lager and the Full Sail Session Premium Lager for general consumption.
Both beers went quickly, but the dark lager was the first one I had to make a restock run for, I had multiple requests.

To celebrate Earth Day KATU featured local Companies that are going above and beyond. Executive Brewmaster Jamie Emmerson how Full Sail manages to make great tasting beer while having one of the lowest water usage ratios in the industry.

Full Sail Brewing has just announced the release of the next beer in their new rotating line of classic ales called the Pub Series. The second beer in the series, Extra Special Bitter (ESB) is a medium-bodied ale with caramel complexity and a crisp hoppy finish. This new series features ales that had only previously been available at Full Sail’s Tasting Room & Pub.

“On September 27, 1987 we opened our doors to living the dream,” says Full Sail founder and CEO Irene Firmat. “A dream to open a small brewery that focused on quality, creativity, and authenticity; a brewery that we would run with respect for our employees, the environment, and our community.”

Full Sail Brewing is among a select group to achieve Gold level recognition in Travel Oregon’s Sustainable Business Challenge! Through Travel Oregon’s Sustainable Business Challenge Full Sail Brewing has once again been recognized for their commitment to the environment.

Could it be that little ol’ Hood River has a greater concentration of breweries for its population than any city in the world? That’s based on the presence of Full Sail, Double Mountain, Big Horse and Pfriem.

Full Sail will release a new beer in their Brewer’s Share Experimental lineup, "Mathias’s Main Ingredient Oatmeal Stout.” The beer was brewed by Chef Mathias Engblom to celebrate the brewing and culinary arts, and it just so happens that February is Stout Month.

So, with all the ingredients that go into beer — the hops, the grain, the yeast- does the water really matter?
“It definitely matters, what water you use. Water is 90-95 percent of the beer for most all beer, with the other percentage being alcohol."

In the section "Ten Things I Think I Think" our Amber gets a shout out. "Beernerdness: ... the best beer I had here -- though it's not from here -- was the Full Sail Amber, from Hood River, Ore. Dark brown and flavorful, and lighter than it looks. Just a terrific taste."...

In the 25 years since Full Sail Brewing Company crafted its first beers, the quaint mountain town of Hood River has amassed an impressive array of high-quality breweries and brewpubs. Full Sail’s success laid the groundwork for a large piece of Hood River’s future as a craft-beer-producing mecca.

After over a year of aging deep in the cellar of their brewhouse, Full Sail Brewing will release their 2013 vintage Bourbon Barrel Aged offering, Full Sail Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout. This highly anticipated release from the Brewery’s vintage barrel series has been a Full Sail brewing tradition since 1998. Every year since, the Full Sail crew brews an imperial style dark ale and fills roughly sixty oak bourbon barrel casks, then waits patiently for a year.

Full Sail Brewing has just announced the release of their latest video “Full Sail Brewing: Beer, Water & Responsibility. The video was filmed locally by Larvick Media features scenic footage of the Columbia River Gorge and the Hood River Valley. It is narrated by Full Sail Brewing’s Executive Brewmaster, Jamie Emmerson and shows the steps the Brewery takes to conserve this precious resource achieving one of the lowest water uses to beer ratios in the industry.

Their 25th anniversary beer --- 25 --- was a typically bold Full Sail beer, a “pale doppelbock” that shows off the brewery's growing rep as Oregon's best lager house. As they describe it, 25 is a complex, luxurious beer brewed with Vienna Malt and Saaz hops and extended lagering produces full bodied flavors of caramel and honey with a hoppy backbone of white pepper and lemon spice. As their anniversary present to us, 25 is available through 2013...